The Sexual Assault Allegations Against Donald Trump Are Here, and They Are Horrifying

And these are just from today. There's every indication we can expect more to come.

Five days after we first saw video of real, actual Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging about degrading, insulting, and sexually assaulting women, and only three days after he angrily disavowed those comments and declared that no one respects women more than he does, the stories of women who say he is a liar are here. There are plenty, and they are all hard to read.

The New York Times published the accounts of two women, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks, who claim they were groped by Trump, one in a first-class airplane row and one in a Trump Tower elevator.

The Palm Beach Post has the story of Mindy McGillivray, who says Trump groped her in 2003 at Mar-a-Lago while she was assisting the official photographer at an event Trump was hosting.

BuzzFeed News interviewed multiple former Miss Teen USA contestants who said Trump would walk in to changing rooms while they were still naked. Some were as young as 15 at the time.

Cassie Searles, who was Miss Washington 2013 and a contestant in the Miss USA pageant while it was still owned by Trump, wrote on social media that he treated the contestants like "cattle" and forced them to line up so that he could inspect his "property."

Footage surfaced from Trump's 1992 "Entertainment Tonight" appearance in which he asks an unidentified young girl if she is going up the escalator, and after she responds, he turns to the camera and gleefully brags that he would be dating her in ten years.

This is how serial predators are undone, by the way. One accuser speaks out, and then many more come forward at once, because up until that point they had been intimidated into silence and/or afraid no one would believe them. How did Trump respond to the Times' request for comment? In the least self-aware way possible, of course.

In a phone interview on Tuesday night, a highly agitated Mr. Trump
denied every one of the women’s claims.

“None of this ever took place,” said Mr. Trump, who began shouting at
the Times reporter who was questioning him. He said that The Times was
making up the allegations to hurt him and that he would sue the news
organization if it reported them.

“You are a disgusting human being,” he told the reporter as she
questioned him about the women’s claims.

Donald Trump has spent his presidential campaign cheerfully proving himself to be a bigoted huckster who has somehow duped millions of voters into believing that he, a spoiled heir who has spent his entire life frittering away other people's money, suddenly cares about the well-being of working-class Americans. Now, there is mounting evidence that this person is also a serial sexual predator who views half of his would-be constituency as faceless, interchangeable objects. This election is disgusting because he made it that way, and this country cannot be rid of his farcical candidacy soon enough.